# Only 20-40% of Women Squirt: What the Research Actually Shows | Dr. Rena Malik

An episode of [Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1508380100), 27 Apr 2026, 6:49.

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## Transcript

[0:02] This is a Beware moment, the most replayed moments from my
[0:05] latest conversation. It's a glimpse into the wider
[0:08] episode, which you can find LinkedIn the show notes below.
[0:12] Because sometimes one small moment is enough to reconnect to
[0:16] living well and being well. When I was looking at your
[0:23] YouTube, which I have to say is amazing, it's so gripping when
[0:27] you're on there and you just end up looking down all of these
[0:30] different videos. We were like, wow, these are
[0:32] things people just do not talk about at all.
[0:35] You know, from how long your penis length should be.
[0:37] How can you increase your penis length again, the average time
[0:41] to have sex? All of these different questions
[0:45] around sexual health. One that really stuck out, which
[0:48] had 3.6 million views. And I think this is something
[0:51] that women can get quite stressed about and it's called
[0:54] squirting. And I was like, OK, let's just
[0:57] touch on this topic because it's really important.
[0:59] And I know we've already kind of touched a bit on female orgasms.
[1:02] We kind of started it by touching as well at the
[1:04] beginning of the conversation in relation to the perfect floor on
[1:07] the G spot. Can you describe what is
[1:10] squirting? Because I think this becomes
[1:12] very misconstrued, especially from porn.
[1:15] How is it different from ejaculation as well?
[1:18] Yes. So squirting and ejaculation are
[1:21] both essentially emitting fluid from the urethra at the time of
[1:26] orgasm and well, not. And so basically, when you're
[1:30] having ejaculation, it's typically a small amount of
[1:34] fluid that occurs with climax that can be like sort of Milky
[1:38] and color. And it's from the skeins glands.
[1:41] And these are glands that are in that area, the G spot area that
[1:45] essentially create fluid and sort of lubricate the area a
[1:48] little bit. And squirting is usually a
[1:51] combination of that plus some fluid that's released from the
[1:54] bladder. And it's usually colorless,
[1:56] odorless. And the volume can range, but
[1:59] it's definitely not as much as you're seeing on pornography,
[2:01] right? Porn is a edited product.
[2:04] They, they add special effects to make it look very much more
[2:09] volumous. And a lot of people, I think
[2:12] misconstrue like, oh, squirting is always associated with
[2:16] pleasure. And what I'll say is that the
[2:19] research shows that, yes, some people feel like there's more
[2:22] pleasure or they feel like it's a superpower that they have.
[2:25] But some people think it's kind of messy and they don't like it
[2:28] and they feel like not great about it.
[2:30] And not everyone squirts. And that doesn't mean you're not
[2:33] having pleasure, right? So I think the issue is that
[2:36] people think this is a visual sign of pleasure, right?
[2:39] Men ejaculate, so we know that they are reaching climax and
[2:43] that is important to a lot of people.
[2:45] And then women don't have that right unless they're squirter.
[2:49] And and so I think that's sort of where that this like
[2:54] obsession with squirting is in society.
[2:56] But like, again, I think it's not studied very well because
[2:59] it's hard to study like this sort of thing, you know, in a
[3:02] research setting, like, oh, how do you find squirters and how do
[3:06] you right, you watch them climax or what you collect the fluid
[3:09] afterwards. And there have been studies
[3:10] where they do that to kind of see what the components are,
[3:13] right, to decide where is this fluid coming from?
[3:16] That's kind of how we know this data, but also ultimately
[3:19] they're small studies and that's all we know.
[3:21] The bottom line is that squirting is something that
[3:25] women can do. It is not necessarily the only
[3:29] way to achieve pleasure. A lot of people do achieve
[3:32] pleasure with it. Some people don't.
[3:34] It doesn't matter. It's all about how you feel and
[3:37] that's it. How do you feel?
[3:38] Do you feel pleasure? Great, you're good.
[3:40] That's it. That is the biggest indicator
[3:42] that people, I guess, need to start connecting to themselves
[3:45] as pleasure. Is that kind of a percentage on
[3:47] scale of people that do do this, people that just don't?
[3:49] Is it more people do or less people don't actually engage in
[3:54] this? These studies are really small,
[3:56] so I would say it's somewhere between 20 and 40% depending on
[3:59] the study you look at. So it's not a majority.
[4:02] And I think ultimately people may do it and not even know it,
[4:06] right? And like, that's why it's hard
[4:08] to say like common people really do it because a lot of people
[4:10] are not perceiving that or maybe they don't like notice because
[4:15] they're already so well lubricated and it's already sort
[4:18] of messy at the time of climax, right?
[4:20] So like, whatever I think it's hard to say.
[4:23] This is really important, kind of knowing that you're not an
[4:25] anomaly in this, you know, and knowing that I know the studies
[4:28] are small, but still 2040%. That's not even the majority or
[4:32] half of the people that actually this is something that we
[4:34] shouldn't be putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for.
[4:37] And just good to have these conversations.
[4:39] I feel like this podcast now should be taking into sexual
[4:41] health education and just played to people.
[4:44] So people start understanding these terms and start becoming
[4:47] familiar with them when they're younger and they take that
[4:50] pressure off because I guess like a really big part around
[4:54] this. And I'm sure you see this as a
[4:55] urologist, I'm sure you have a lot of people coming to you with
[4:58] an immense amount of shame. And even people then when
[5:01] they're getting to see you, there's a big barrier.
[5:03] People probably not even feeling, you know, confident
[5:06] enough to come and see you because there's so much shame in
[5:09] this area. Yeah.
[5:10] And you know, to to schools credit, they have a lot to
[5:12] teach, right. They got to teach you all these
[5:16] curriculum that are required by at least in the US, like by the
[5:18] state or by the country. And so I get, I get that they
[5:22] only have so many classes dedicated to sexual education
[5:25] and they have to focus on safety and consent and like things that
[5:29] people need to know. But there is a whole host of
[5:32] things that we should be teaching younger kids and I
[5:35] think you know it. It starts because one, we don't
[5:38] feel comfortable talking about sex.
[5:40] It's like, right, it they don't feel comfortable When you look
[5:42] at how people learn about sex, the majority is through
[5:45] pornography and then the next subset is through, you know,
[5:49] family like you'd learn from your parents and friends, right?
[5:52] But it's like very few are learning from I mean schools
[5:55] like a far, far cry right, But but very few are learning like
[6:00] the normal functions from people who are normal.
[6:03] They're watching pornography, which, as I said before, is an
[6:05] edited product, and it's not realistic, right?
[6:08] Those people are porn actors for a reason.
[6:12] They've chosen that profession because they have certain
[6:15] anatomic features or whatever, right?
[6:19] They, they, and they also have a lot of sexual confidence.
[6:22] So I think that's a very different scenario than what's
[6:26] actually normal. Thank you for listening to the
[6:31] Speedwell moment if it resonated, the full conversation
[6:34] is LinkedIn, the show notes and I hope it gave you a small pause
[6:39] to take a moment for you and to reconnect to living well and
[6:42] being well. If you loved it, please do leave
[6:45] a review, follow the show or share this maybe with someone
[6:48] you love.

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